Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 + Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: SNIP Malware for Linux? What about those macro viruses for Open Office? Every cross platform software such as Mozilla derivatives, java based stuff like Azureus and so on is a possible target. But can they infect a Linux box the way they do a M$ box? I don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Dale wrote: But can they infect a Linux box the way they do a M$ box? I don't use Windoze here but since I only use Linux I would like to know just how secure it is. I manage my bank account and credit card account from my Linux box. I also have java and OOo

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:10:56 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: SNIP Malware for Linux? What about those macro viruses for Open Office? Every cross platform software such as Mozilla derivatives, java based stuff like Azureus and so on is a possible target. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 + Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Andrey Falko
On Feb 7, 2008 9:04 AM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD which offers

[gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Steve
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy than a basic web-browser. Is there